New data from 2020 shows just how catastrophic COVID-19 is

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New data from 2020 shows just how catastrophic COVID-19 is

COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020, a year defined in many ways by the deadly pandemic, This is the conclusion reached by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a report released on Wednesday. (The statistics are provisional, meaning that they...

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